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OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials

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OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials

Overview of this book

If a picture is worth a thousand words, why settle for anything less? Creating good visualizations to substantiate your ideas is essential in today's corporate environment. Use OmniGraffle's remarkably powerful and flexible features to get your diagrams right. Although fun to use, it can get cumbersome to find out exactly how to get what you want.This book will teach you how to make stunning diagrams without spending much time and energy. No matter if you have never used OmniGraffle, or if you are using it on a daily basis, this book will teach you how to get the most out of this splendid diagramming tool. It will first teach you the basics of the program and then extend your knowledge to a higher level.The book will teach you to make eye-popping visuals using a lot of useful, step-by-step examples. It begins with covering concepts that beef up your basics of using OmniGraffle. The earlier chapters will teach you to prepare dazzling diagrams from scratch with the many stencils, shapes, and fonts that are included in OmniGraffle. As your understanding of OmniGraffle broadens, the book will go even deeper to explain the less understood features of the software. It also covers some handy time-saving techniques such as workspaces and keyboard shortcuts.By the time you reach the end of this book, you will have mastered OmniGraffle to turn your ideas into diagrams.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface
9
OmniGraffle workspaces
Index

Chapter 8. Canvases and Canvas Layers

If you need to work on more than one diagram for your task, you have a few choices: You can either have one diagram per OmniGraffle file, you can place one diagram on each page on your OmniGraffle canvas, or you could use more than one canvas.

A lot of people never get past the idea of working with more than one canvas. They are more than happy using one page for each diagram that they create and exporting or printing just the very page that they need.

You should aim higher and become confident with the notion of one diagram per canvas. This chapter will teach you exactly how to work with multiple canvases.

Another wonderful, time saving, and efficiency booster is the use of canvas layers, or just layers for short. Using layers enables you to quickly hide and show various parts of your diagram. This is very handy if your diagrams will contain a lot of elements.

In this chapter, you will learn about:

  • Naming your canvases

  • Managing your canvases

  • Managing your...